4 * 0.9 "Harmony" December, 2011
10 This release is binary compatible with 0.8. The 'ffmpeg' command-line tool has
11 been extended to also support the command line syntax and features of a tool
14 Additionally, this release introduces a number of new interesting codecs
15 such as the Apple Prores, Flash Screen Video 2 and Windows Media Image,
16 and muxers such as LATM or CELT in Ogg, among many others. Moreover, our
17 H.264 decoder has been improved to decode 4:2:2 material and our libx264
18 wrapper now allows to produce 4:2:2 and 4:4:4 video.
20 See the Changelog file for a list of significant changes. Note, there
21 are many more new features and bugfixes than whats listed there.
23 Bugreports against FFmpeg git master or the most recent FFmpeg release are
24 accepted. If you are experiencing issues with any formally released version of
25 FFmpeg, please try git master to check if the issue still exists. If it does,
26 make your report against the development code following the usual bug reporting
33 A number of additional APIs have been introduced and some existing
34 functions have been deprecated and are scheduled for removal in the next
35 release. Please see the file doc/APIchanges for details along with
36 similar programmer-centric information.
44 Please see the Changelog file for a more detailed list of changes.